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Cultura y fiestas
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2005 © Oficina Virtual de Turismo
Compostela has its history and culture collected in thirteen museums dedicated
to such diverse subjects as pilgrimages, ethnography, and sacred and
contemporary art, which are housed in monumental churches and noble houses.
Auditoriums, theatres and galleries are also filled all year round by a regular
calendar programmed by both public and private institutions. During the second
fortnight of July the town celebrates the Festivities of the Apostle, declared
of International Interest for Tourism. Their culmination is the solemn mass of
the 25th, preceded on the 24th by an audio-visual show that transforms the
façade of the Cathedral and then a display of fireworks.
August brings street spectacles, and in September the classical season of the
Real Filharmonía de Galicia begins. In the autumn the Curtocircuito’ film
festival is followed by ‘Cineuropa’, as well as by festivals for puppet shows
and lieder. The year concludes with the Christmas festivities and begins with
the Cabalgata de Reyes. February and March are the months for theatre and
dance, and also of the Carnival. After the Easter processions come the popular
festivities of the Ascensión at Alameda park, where in April bookstands are set
up for the fair. In June, the dance festival ‘En Pé de Pedra’ is an example of
a public space open to the arts. And all through the year, the town’s lively
nightlife brings together jazz, Latin rhythms and folk music at discotheques,
traditional pubs or others of a modern design, as well as multisession spaces.
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